Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Phra Malai

Other related names

• Jordan, Ethel S, former owner
• Gabrielson, Nancy Jordan, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 83-23-1 83-23-1
(University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963204413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6320441

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai with shorter texts in Pali

Summary

The popular story of Phra Malai (a monk who visits heaven and hell), preceded by 3 short texts illustrated with portraits, mostly of deities but also of monks and devotees.

Notes

• Title for manuscript from title for predominant work supplied by cataloger (viewed on December 8, 2015)
   
• Written in 5 lines per segment.
   
• Written on khoi paper, with 2 folios written in gold ink on black (f. A03, A06); folded concertina- or accordion-style.
   
• 16 illustrated folios (11 on Side A, 5 on Side B) with images of monks (f. A03), deities (f. A06-A11), devotees (f. A12), and Phra Malai episodes (f. A13, A30, A42, B11, B26, B36-B37, B44).
   
• Covers attached, simply lacquered, with a border formed of additional layers of heavy paper.
   
• Written in Thailand, probably in the 1860s or 1870s (Justin McDaniel).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 13.25 x 63.5 cm.
   
• Reproduced from the original with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.
   

Extent

1 online resource (102 folios) :

Support

Color illustrations.

Provenance

• Undated colophon by a writer referring to himself without naming himself, his wife Jai, his grandmother Pien, and a man with the surname Kiew and his four sons, who together donated the manuscript to a monastery, probably for a funeral.
   
• Formerly owned by Ethel S. Jordan (signature inside upper cover; possibly a relative of the donor).
   
• Gift of Mrs. Guy G. Gabrielson, Jr. (Nancy Jordan Gabrielson), 1983
   

Subjects topical

• Heaven--Buddhism
• Hell--Buddhism
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Thai--Specimens

Genres

• Facsimiles
• Folded books
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• A01 — Ownership inscription, f. A01
• A03 — Unahisavijaya, f. A03
• A05 — Bhojana, f. A05
• A10 — Paramathadhamma, f. A10
• A12 — Phra Malai, f. A12

Decorations

• A03 — Illustration, Monk, f. A03 left
• A03 — Illustration, Monk, f. A03 right
• A06 — Illustration, Indra, f. A06 left
• A06 — Illustration, Brahma, f. A06 right
• A07 — Illustration, Garuda, f. A07 left
• A07 — Illustration, Garuda, f. A07 right
• A08 — Illustration, Rama, f. A08 left
• A08 — Illustration, Sita, f. A08 right
• A09 — Illustration, Asura or demon, f. A09 left
• A09 — Illustration, Asura or demon, f. A09 right
• A10 — Illustration, Lakshmi, f. A10 left
• A10 — Illustration, Narai, f. A10 right
• A11 — Illustration, Deva, f. A11 left
• A11 — Illustration, Deva, f. A11 right
• A12 — Illustration, Female devotee, f. A12 left
• A12 — Illustration, Male devotee, f. A12 right
• A13 — Illustration, Avicci hell, f. A13 left
• A13 — Illustration, Phra Malai visiting Hell, f. A13 right
• A30 — Illustration, Phra Malai and woodcutter, f. A30 left
• A30 — Illustration, Woodcutter, f. A30 right
• A42 — Illustration, Phra Malai preaching to Indra, f. A42 left
• A42 — Illustration, Chulamani Stupa, f. A42 right
• B11 — Phra Malai preaching to Indra, f. B11 left
• B11 — Illustration, Chulamani Stupa, f. B11 right
• B26 — Illustration, Phra Malai Hell scene, f. B26 left
• B26 — Illustration, Man meditating in cave, f. B26 right
• B36 — Illustration, Phra Malai visiting devotees, f. B36 left
• B36 — Illustration, Mother and children looking on, f. B36 right
• B37 — Illustration, Stages of sickness and death, doctor treating old man, f. B37 left
• B37 — Illustration, Stages of sickness and death, women preparing materials, f. B37 right
• B44 — Illustration, Men playing board game, f. B44 left
• B44 — Illustration, Monks at a funeral, f. B44 right